Whose opinion of you matters?

My therapist recently said: your job is to fill your heart with so much of your own self love and your own acceptance, that you don’t seek it externally.

Right now i am in a season, where I am learning what it looks like to refocus my heart and mind back on the God who loves me. It’s an inward focus, rather than external.

I have struggled in my past with looking externally for love, acceptance, and approval. And when I say externally, I mean other people. I’d be lying if some days it isn’t tempting to feel my worth from external sources. I’m still a work in progress.

In a world where we can feel approved of or disapproved of with the push of a button or the click of our finger, I believe God is calling for our hearts to be set on his approval alone.

I’ve learned that as easy as we gain approval from others, it can also be as easily lost. This uncertainty can feel scary, and the longing for Connection is real.

God longs to have a relationship with us. When maybe it seems as if no one else does God delights in our pursuit of Him. His love is steady, it is not fickle or fleeting. His opinion of us is this: we are deeply loved, fully pleasing, totally forgiven, and completely approved of.

When we’re tempted to seek the opinions of others over the opinion of God it’s important to remember who’s really matters. It’s more a game of the heart! Is your heart in the opinions of other people, or in God?